Ivanka Trump might not have an official role in her father’s administration, but that’s reportedly not stopping the First Daughter from trying to pass legislation that favors families and working women.

Last week, Ivanka met with members of both the House and Senate in the Roosevelt Room in the White House to discuss her proposed child care tax benefit, according to Bloomberg. The plan would allow single and coupled parents to deduct child care costs from their income taxes — meaning you might not have to pay taxes on what you spent on your day care center or nanny. Considering the fact that the cost of child care in the U.S. has risen to $9,589 a year, close to the the average cost of in-state college tuition ($9,650) for the 2016-2017 school year, this is exciting news.

Specifically, the plan outlined by Trump’s eldest daughter is geared towards individuals earning less than $250,000 a year, or couples earning less than $500,000. Lower-income families without tax liability — who don’t make enough to legally owe taxes — would receive a rebate for their expenses of up to $1,200 a year through the earned-income tax credit.

While it all sounds great in theory, this tax break could cost the government over $500 billion over the course of the next decade, according to Bloomberg. Unfortunately, that will make it very, very difficult to convince Congress that it’s worth it.

Those who followed the Trump campaign closely might recall the release of a similar child care tax plan back in September, promising not only deductions but also six weeks of paid maternity leave to biological mothers. Currently the U.S. does not guarantee any paid time off for new parents, leaving it solely up to the company to have the final say. The money would be pooled from the country’s unemployment insurance, which currently floats cash to laid-off workers — also a difficult measure to secure.

How the Plan Could Benefit Families

Shining a spotlight on the need for families — namely women — to receive financial breaks to stifle the rising costs of child care is certainly a step in the right direction. It also could help stimulate economic growth for the country by allowing more women to enter the workforce, rather than stay home caring for their children because they can’t afford the cost of child care.

The Problem

It turns out the childcare tax plan that Ivanka is proposing is likely to heavily favor wealthy, dual-parent households, as the Tax Policy Center reports that a whopping 45 percent of Americans don’t even make enough money to pay federal income taxes in the first place. Especially for families living below the poverty line, offering a rebate in the form of a tax credit that they won’t see until a year or so later doesn’t help the day-to-day struggle they often face.

In addition, Trump’s child care tax plan is unfortunately unlikely to get much enthusiasm from Republicans in Congress, who failed to mention child-care-related tax reform in the blueprint they released last year.

The Good News

It’s undoubtedly exciting to see, for the first time, a First Daughter take action to help further an agenda that favors working families. And lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle agree that the government needs to do more to support working families. In regards to the plan, Ivanka told Cosmopolitan in September, “Both sides of the aisle have been unable to agree on this issue, so I think this takes huge advancement and obviously, for same-sex couples as well, there’s tremendous benefit here to enabling the mother to recover after childbirth. It’s critical for the health of the mother. It’s critical for bonding with the child, and that was a top focus of this plan.”

At this point, our best bet is to wait and see how things pan out, but putting issues that can help families and working parents on the table for deliberation is definitely a step in the right direction.

Jenn Sinrich is an editor in New York City, a self-proclaimed foodie always looking the healthier version of all recipes, a passionate lover of all things cheese, a friendly New Yorker, Bostonian at heart and proud Red Sox fan. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.